The banks-induced turmoil in the money markets has expunged any further media reference to the Lisbon treaty, which the House of Commons treacherously approved recently.

This is the treaty that surrenders the last vestiges of British national sovereignty to the European Union. This is the treaty that the government mendaciously asserts is markedly different from the European Constitutional Treaty, upon which the British people were promised a referendum.

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It is instructional, therefore, to mark well the comments on the Lisbon treaty by the chief architect of the former constitutional treaty, Valery Giscard d'Estaing. He has affirmed that he has compared the text of the Lisbon treaty with the constitutional treaty and, to his surprise and great pleasure, the nine essential points of the constitutional treaty are repeated word for word in the Lisbon treaty. Not a comma has been changed.

Surely it is time for our government to stop deceiving the people, publish the basic text of the Lisbon treaty and, by referendum, allow the people of this former democracy to decide whether they will be governed by their elected representatives or by foreign, unelected and undismissible bureaucrats.

MM HENDERSON
Endrick Gardens
Balfron, Stirlingshire